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Acknowledgments The author gratefully acknowledges David R. Crippen of the Ford Archives for his encouragement and guidance in finding sources of information for this book. The entire staff of the Archives and Library of the Edison Institute (Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village) were consistently helpful over my nearly three years of research. Archives and Library administrators Steven K. Hamp, Judith Endelman , Cynthia Read-Miller, Jeanine Head, and Jennifer Heymoss were all very supportive of my work. Joan Klimchalk and Winthrop Sears, Jr., helped especially in obtaining photographs. These establishments also contributed materially: the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan, the Cranbrook Archives and Historical Collections of the Cranbrook Educational Community, the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library, General Motors Corporation Public Relations, the Lawrence Technological University , and the Dearborn Historical Museum Research Department. Several close relatives of biography subjects were especially helpful in supplying photographs and otherwise unavailable information pertaining to their families. However, unless otherwise noted, the photographs are from the collections of the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village and are reproduced with permission—and my thanks. And, as usual, the rallying spirits of my close friends Rylma I. LaChance and Hubert J. Beudert is most appreciated. ...

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